My roommate in college was a music major. He started in a class of about 300, finished with about 20 of the starters left. Most people don't realize how much math is involved in music ed. Most just wanna be VanHalen and think Bach rocks- music theory ALWAYS weeds out the weaklings. Course, my roommate thought he had the talent to play music people wanted to listen to, and wound up being disappointed. I think he works in a record store now. No matter how much "education" in music one acquires, you can't fool the ear.
Had another roommate who, bored with school as a CS major, ditched his belongings and bought an 18 wheeler to see America. Now he owns 18. Last I spoke with him, he's worth 4 million (rode the tech wave up, had no home-no wife-no personal expenses thus money to invest - and bailed at the right time)
OTH, I did humanities, then CS, then accounting, now law school. managed to pay for each with the former, but with so many careers demanding advanced degrees, one has to take into account whether the discipline will be as interesting after 6 years of school as it was at the beginning. Choosing a degree based on the market is stupid. Choosing based on personal level of interest can never steer you wrong. Good times or bad, you'll always be happy with a discipline that makes you want to get out of the bed in the am.
Yeah, cnn's article mentions what's been out there for a while, that Anderson and Duchovney don't mesh quite as well as Scully and Mulder. Duchovney's had a track record of dissing Anderson at about any chance probably cus he doesn't want to be typcast as her 'significant other.' It's sorta odd being that most actors go their entire carreer looking for a defining role, and both sorta bit into one almost right off the bat.
Think Willis - die hard dude; Eastwood = man with no name/dirty harry; Swartzenegger = Terminator; Stallone = Rocky/Rambo
It's just very difficult to exit a typecast if you also have the albatross of a specific character hanging around your neck - like g-man/Mulder partnered with Scully. He's just not as interesting right now unless Anderson's around and vice versa, I hope that changes for both of them. Let's just hope neither are dumb enough to do a sitcom! Just glad to have had 9 seasons of quality escapism. Though I still wonder what would've happened in season 2 of VR5?
Also, it's kinda cool to think of our celebrities of emulating the fictional world with which we identify: like when Sam Jackson and Travolta shot that commercial pairing them up in a coffee house just chatting like Jules and Vincent. That was cool; or when the Friends cast pals it up - we believe for a moment that art imitates life, but it happens rarely.
With that being said : It's just television- well written/directed/acted/filmed television, but television nonetheless.
The cinematography still rocks- the homage to 'Traffic' last week was cool. (I just got the arc between 'All Things' and 'Grand Canyon' after seeing the latter last week) And even if the character development has stalled a bit, the writing still exhibits creative flashes (even if the only character to ever speak truth was Kritchcau during his walk with Mulder thru the Pentagon!) The problem has always been that while we want Mulder and Scully to wild thing, we're sorta repulsed by the cheapening of the act into some sorta alien conspiracy instead of the natural progression of a relationship.
Course while the reality of Anderson and Duchovney's 'antipathy' towards one another doesn't help the overall vibe one gets from the show, there's no denying the onscreen chemistry is one of the best ever. Reyes and Dogget do hold some hope, although there was one scene where Reyes and Anderson appeared simpatico.
Overall, perhaps it's better to do movies, where the plot lines could have the continuity of writing and cinematography and feel more of a piece than a 44min tv show.
The topic of whether a University owns it's intellectual property is a really important frontier in intellectual property rights as well as the future of nonprofit taxation in America. On one hand you have a free enterprise system which rewards innovation with cash minus taxes or failure plus taxes depending on the practical aspects of the innovation. On the other hand you have an almost communistic system in place to protect Universities from the same circumstance of having to pay taxes because of our belief that nonprofits should be insulated from general society. U.S. citizens lose billions every month to nonprofits not paying taxes- I do not believe it's that far of an intellectual stretch to demand that either the nonprofit institutions place all R&D in the public domain or pay the same tax rate as any corporation. The knowledge developed at the taxpayer expense (through loss of taxes) should remain in the hands of the citizens.
I find it increasingly discusting when public monies are used to develop technologies only to have a select few (usually not the innovator) benefit the most.
Rebuttals can't include "bottom line management infringes on my research!" arguments 'cus Universities are already run *like* businesses it's just that their bottom line isn't infringed upon by paying the taxman.
Perhaps it's been said before, but it's worth repeating: The enduring ruse of writing an article disparaging or complementing GNU/Linux will get almost as many hits as fresh pr0n! All one has to do is write gibberish and notify/. and *POOF* a gaggle of programmers/scriptkiddies/wannabees/shudabeens/cou ldhavebeens/techgods will hold forth and most importantly: VISIT YOUR WEBSITE. What continually amazes me is the extreme lack of effort going into the instigating web article. It seems most of the time/. posts critiques written by morons who couldn't in any way possible get a legitimate job writing computer analysis or who have a limited knowledge of anything outside of their own myopic viewpoint. It's not that their articles even hint at any new insight as to why Mom and Pop and Sister Sally could give a crap about GNU/Linux - "it's too difficult to learn" - it's that there really is no solution at the present time and there may very well never be a "simple" Linux distro. The structure of any GNU/Linux system is more complex than your average VCR. And if the general public cannot program/use that little device, why do so many hold hopes for massive Windows defection when GNU/Linux is quite a bit more difficult?
At least the Independent got credit for the hits: perhaps the advertisers will take notice. Meanwhile, we seem to have become like lambs following every little link to.....
Everyone has memories of school project teammates not pulling their weight or acting ignorant of their responsibilities. Life generally weeds these weaklings out. Satchell's answer indicates his most recent memories of a cooperative venture are positive. And that he assumes that the big stick of beaurocratic regulation will save the day if there are any loafers about.
Hmmm, aren't beaurocratic regulations/regulators (or lack thereof) those which have wrought this beast? The inherent danger is the creation of perfect self-perpetuating public beaurocracy staffed by those who only wish to rock the boat as much as it takes to keep their job and appear to be doing something. Perhaps Satchell will be different. If so, he will NEVER make the committee.
$rant:
Seems the quest for some sort of creative power is inherent in many of us, even if we were not the creator, we may very well get a piece of the glory via regulation. Just ask AlGore. Ayn Rand is rolling over in her grave. Let's see....to whom do we apply her term "second-hander" in this story? Course it could be argued that modern Redmond is built upon second-handers. OTOH, middlemen aren't all bad:-)
$end-rant!
ide-floppy.o `ide-floppy_end_request'
ide-floppy.c:699: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
ide-floppy.c:699: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
ide-floppy.c: In function `idefloppy_que_pc_head':
ide-floppy.c:779: incompatible types in assignment
ide-floppy.c: In function `idefloppy_create_rw_cmd':
ide-floppy.c:1214: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
etc........
Back to my trusty 2.4.16
Being that most (if not all) universities in America are nonprofits, they suck a great deal of taxes from the government (hence the people) and for this priveledge the Universities gather an immense amount of cash reserves farming out their professors and staff for cash to bussiness and gov't and charging exhorbitant fees for the "honor" to attend a few lectures.
What I find remarkable here isn't the fact that the info will be free (Mellon et. al. are picking up the early tab) but that it even exists at all. See, one of the scams of education is it's vaporous nature. Having to prepare lecture outlines is one thing, to actually solidify a course's material in almost linear form via a web page has to be remarkable. How many courses, especially the humanities, do you remember as a bullshit waste of time because it was virtually a free for all class discussion or the professor (while well intentioned) was just a very poor professor? This shows, if it comes to fruition, a great deal of courage on MIT's part and proves that they aren't the con artists many Universities are.
WTF! That's now in my favorites! After hitting 1.2MB/sec settled into 775KB/sec.
Only prob was that the tar kept going way past 26 mb, just wound up cancelling. Got the bz @ 150KB (not bad!) Must be that KY jelly! Or maybe some Sensa.. I mean Kentucky Bluegrass Thanks
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My roommate in college was a music major. He started in a class of about 300, finished with about 20 of the starters left. Most people don't realize how much math is involved in music ed. Most just wanna be VanHalen and think Bach rocks- music theory ALWAYS weeds out the weaklings. Course, my roommate thought he had the talent to play music people wanted to listen to, and wound up being disappointed. I think he works in a record store now. No matter how much "education" in music one acquires, you can't fool the ear.
Had another roommate who, bored with school as a CS major, ditched his belongings and bought an 18 wheeler to see America. Now he owns 18. Last I spoke with him, he's worth 4 million (rode the tech wave up, had no home-no wife-no personal expenses thus money to invest - and bailed at the right time)
OTH, I did humanities, then CS, then accounting, now law school. managed to pay for each with the former, but with so many careers demanding advanced degrees, one has to take into account whether the discipline will be as interesting after 6 years of school as it was at the beginning. Choosing a degree based on the market is stupid. Choosing based on personal level of interest can never steer you wrong. Good times or bad, you'll always be happy with a discipline that makes you want to get out of the bed in the am.
Yeah, cnn's article mentions what's been out there for a while, that Anderson and Duchovney don't mesh quite as well as Scully and Mulder. Duchovney's had a track record of dissing Anderson at about any chance probably cus he doesn't want to be typcast as her 'significant other.' It's sorta odd being that most actors go their entire carreer looking for a defining role, and both sorta bit into one almost right off the bat.
Think Willis - die hard dude; Eastwood = man with no name/dirty harry; Swartzenegger = Terminator; Stallone = Rocky/Rambo
It's just very difficult to exit a typecast if you also have the albatross of a specific character hanging around your neck - like g-man/Mulder partnered with Scully. He's just not as interesting right now unless Anderson's around and vice versa, I hope that changes for both of them. Let's just hope neither are dumb enough to do a sitcom! Just glad to have had 9 seasons of quality escapism. Though I still wonder what would've happened in season 2 of VR5?
Also, it's kinda cool to think of our celebrities of emulating the fictional world with which we identify: like when Sam Jackson and Travolta shot that commercial pairing them up in a coffee house just chatting like Jules and Vincent. That was cool; or when the Friends cast pals it up - we believe for a moment that art imitates life, but it happens rarely.
With that being said : It's just television- well written/directed/acted/filmed television, but television nonetheless.
The cinematography still rocks- the homage to 'Traffic' last week was cool. (I just got the arc between 'All Things' and 'Grand Canyon' after seeing the latter last week) And even if the character development has stalled a bit, the writing still exhibits creative flashes (even if the only character to ever speak truth was Kritchcau during his walk with Mulder thru the Pentagon!) The problem has always been that while we want Mulder and Scully to wild thing, we're sorta repulsed by the cheapening of the act into some sorta alien conspiracy instead of the natural progression of a relationship.
Course while the reality of Anderson and Duchovney's 'antipathy' towards one another doesn't help the overall vibe one gets from the show, there's no denying the onscreen chemistry is one of the best ever. Reyes and Dogget do hold some hope, although there was one scene where Reyes and Anderson appeared simpatico.
Overall, perhaps it's better to do movies, where the plot lines could have the continuity of writing and cinematography and feel more of a piece than a 44min tv show.
The topic of whether a University owns it's intellectual property is a really important frontier in intellectual property rights as well as the future of nonprofit taxation in America. On one hand you have a free enterprise system which rewards innovation with cash minus taxes or failure plus taxes depending on the practical aspects of the innovation. On the other hand you have an almost communistic system in place to protect Universities from the same circumstance of having to pay taxes because of our belief that nonprofits should be insulated from general society. U.S. citizens lose billions every month to nonprofits not paying taxes- I do not believe it's that far of an intellectual stretch to demand that either the nonprofit institutions place all R&D in the public domain or pay the same tax rate as any corporation. The knowledge developed at the taxpayer expense (through loss of taxes) should remain in the hands of the citizens.
I find it increasingly discusting when public monies are used to develop technologies only to have a select few (usually not the innovator) benefit the most.
Rebuttals can't include "bottom line management infringes on my research!" arguments 'cus Universities are already run *like* businesses it's just that their bottom line isn't infringed upon by paying the taxman.
Perhaps it's been said before, but it's worth repeating: The enduring ruse of writing an article disparaging or complementing GNU/Linux will get almost as many hits as fresh pr0n! All one has to do is write gibberish and notify /. and *POOF* a gaggle of programmers/scriptkiddies/wannabees/shudabeens/cou ldhavebeens/techgods will hold forth and most importantly: VISIT YOUR WEBSITE. What continually amazes me is the extreme lack of effort going into the instigating web article. It seems most of the time /. posts critiques written by morons who couldn't in any way possible get a legitimate job writing computer analysis or who have a limited knowledge of anything outside of their own myopic viewpoint. It's not that their articles even hint at any new insight as to why Mom and Pop and Sister Sally could give a crap about GNU/Linux - "it's too difficult to learn" - it's that there really is no solution at the present time and there may very well never be a "simple" Linux distro. The structure of any GNU/Linux system is more complex than your average VCR. And if the general public cannot program/use that little device, why do so many hold hopes for massive Windows defection when GNU/Linux is quite a bit more difficult?
At least the Independent got credit for the hits: perhaps the advertisers will take notice. Meanwhile, we seem to have become like lambs following every little link to.....
Everyone has memories of school project teammates not pulling their weight or acting ignorant of their responsibilities. Life generally weeds these weaklings out. Satchell's answer indicates his most recent memories of a cooperative venture are positive. And that he assumes that the big stick of beaurocratic regulation will save the day if there are any loafers about.
:-)
Hmmm, aren't beaurocratic regulations/regulators (or lack thereof) those which have wrought this beast? The inherent danger is the creation of perfect self-perpetuating public beaurocracy staffed by those who only wish to rock the boat as much as it takes to keep their job and appear to be doing something. Perhaps Satchell will be different. If so, he will NEVER make the committee.
$rant:
Seems the quest for some sort of creative power is inherent in many of us, even if we were not the creator, we may very well get a piece of the glory via regulation. Just ask AlGore. Ayn Rand is rolling over in her grave. Let's see....to whom do we apply her term "second-hander" in this story? Course it could be argued that modern Redmond is built upon second-handers. OTOH, middlemen aren't all bad
$end-rant!
ide-floppy.o `ide-floppy_end_request'
ide-floppy.c:699: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
ide-floppy.c:699: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
ide-floppy.c: In function `idefloppy_que_pc_head':
ide-floppy.c:779: incompatible types in assignment
ide-floppy.c: In function `idefloppy_create_rw_cmd':
ide-floppy.c:1214: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
etc........
Back to my trusty 2.4.16
Being that most (if not all) universities in America are nonprofits, they suck a great deal of taxes from the government (hence the people) and for this priveledge the Universities gather an immense amount of cash reserves farming out their professors and staff for cash to bussiness and gov't and charging exhorbitant fees for the "honor" to attend a few lectures.
What I find remarkable here isn't the fact that the info will be free (Mellon et. al. are picking up the early tab) but that it even exists at all. See, one of the scams of education is it's vaporous nature. Having to prepare lecture outlines is one thing, to actually solidify a course's material in almost linear form via a web page has to be remarkable. How many courses, especially the humanities, do you remember as a bullshit waste of time because it was virtually a free for all class discussion or the professor (while well intentioned) was just a very poor professor? This shows, if it comes to fruition, a great deal of courage on MIT's part and proves that they aren't the con artists many Universities are.
WTF! That's now in my favorites! After hitting 1.2MB/sec settled into 775KB/sec. Only prob was that the tar kept going way past 26 mb, just wound up cancelling. Got the bz @ 150KB (not bad!) Must be that KY jelly! Or maybe some Sensa.. I mean Kentucky Bluegrass Thanks